From Cold Palace Princess to Celestial Empress Ch. 17
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In the dark forest, a stunning girl in a bright yellow dress swiftly moved through, her figure flickering in the pitch-black night, like a dream.
“Luck is really on my side; I’ve caught a Body Tempering Realm ferocious beast. This should be enough for Ruoshui to eat.”
Xiao Minghuang returned to the camp with a joyful expression.
Ye Ruoshui had already set up the tent, lit the campfire, and arranged all the cooking utensils, waiting for Xiao Minghuang to return with the game.
As soon as she saw her figure appear, the young girl immediately went up to greet her.
“Your luck is good, you’ve hunted a Body Tempering Realm beast!”
Xiao Minghuang smiled slightly and took out the beast’s corpse from her storage bag.
“Your Highness has worked hard, please rest for a while!”
Ye Ruoshui took the ingredients and reminded her softly.
However, Xiao Minghuang shook her head.
“The environment here is unfamiliar and not necessarily safe. I need to patrol around.”
“Your Highness, be careful.”
Xiao Minghuang nodded, turned around, and left, her figure disappearing into the dense forest.
In fact, besides patrolling, she had a more important purpose.
Since the Opportunity Compass was activated, it had only detected an opportunity once in the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom, and then there had been no further movement.
But just now, while she was hunting, the long-silent compass suddenly shook, pointing in a certain direction.
After settling Ye Ruoshui, Xiao Minghuang immediately followed the compass’s guidance.
…
After some time of exploration, Xiao Minghuang arrived at a hidden cave.
The cave was heavy with moisture, and the walls were covered with slippery moss, as if they had been soaked in water for a long time.
As she ventured deeper, she finally discovered the treasure hidden inside.
It was a century-old Water Lingzhi.
Growing in a cold pool, the moist and warm aura hit her face. Its leaves were crystal clear, and its roots were pure white and flawless, clearly indicating its potent medicinal power.
“What a good find!”
Xiao Minghuang plucked the Water Lingzhi, placed it in her storage bag, and smiled.
“It seems I need to go out more often. Staying at home, it’s hard to encounter such opportunities.”
Just as Xiao Minghuang was about to return, the compass moved again.
“There’s another opportunity!”
Xiao Minghuang paused, then quickly reacted.
She immediately followed the compass’s guidance and continued forward.
This time, the opportunity was farther away, and Xiao Minghuang walked for nearly half an hour without reaching it.
“I guess this opportunity is at the edge of the compass’s detection range.”
As Xiao Minghuang continued forward, the compass finally stopped moving.
Before her eyes was a cave more than one person tall, hidden behind a huge boulder, extremely concealed. Without the compass’s guidance, Xiao Minghuang would never have found this place.
Xiao Minghuang walked into the cave, speculating in her heart:
“Could it be another spiritual herb?”
But.
After only a few steps, a clamor of voices reached her ears.
After stepping into the Qi Refining Realm, Xiao Minghuang’s spiritual sense had improved, and she could hear the sounds from deep within the cave clearly.
“Second Brother, among the people we captured this time, there’s a woman at the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm. Please, you must reward her to me. The cultivation technique I practice requires the primordial yin of a woman with cultivation.”
“At most, I won’t take a share next time!”
“Third Brother, as long as Big Brother agrees, Second Brother has no objections!”
…
Hearing the words coming from the cave, Xiao Minghuang frowned slightly.
“Could this place be a den of thieves?”
“The cultivation technique… Could this place be a stronghold of the demonic cultivators in Beiyang City?”
Xiao Minghuang pondered for a moment, her expression pausing.
Beiyang City was located at the junction of the northern mountains and the Daxia Plains, nestled between towering peaks. Apart from a few scattered villages along the main road, the rest was a vast, uninhabited wilderness.
If a few demonic cultivators were hiding in the forest, even casting a wide net would hardly reveal their traces.
But unfortunately for them.
These demonic cultivators, or perhaps this cave, harbored some kind of opportunity, which Xiao Minghuang had followed the compass’s guidance to find.
“After much searching, it came without effort.”
Xiao Minghuang sighed. She had come to exterminate the demonic cultivators of Beiyang City and hadn’t expected to encounter them so quickly.
The next moment, she concealed her aura, lightened her steps, and quietly infiltrated deeper into the cave.
After another turn, Xiao Minghuang saw a faint glimmer of light.
Approaching closer, she noticed a burly man emitting the aura of the seventh level of Body Tempering, leaning against the rock, dozing off.
Xiao Minghuang sniffed, and a foul smell of blood entered her nostrils.
“This smell, it doesn’t seem like animal blood. Could it be human blood?”
Her gaze fell on the burly man; the smell of blood was emanating from him.
“Perfect timing to ask you for some answers.”
Xiao Minghuang’s figure flashed, and the next moment she appeared on the table behind the burly man.
The man seemed to hear some movement, twisted his body, and muttered:
“Little beauty, don’t mess around. I’m tired today, I’ll pamper you tomorrow.”
Xiao Minghuang stood on the table, a cold light flashing in her pupils. She raised her arm, and a faint golden glow appeared at her fingertips.
After stepping into the Qi Refining Realm, she could now guide spiritual energy out of her body, allowing her to take an enemy’s life without even touching them.
The faint golden light enveloped her slender fingertips as she pressed them against the burly man’s nape, carrying a force of a thousand pounds, rendering the massive man immobile.
Suddenly.
The burly man woke up, but before he could figure out what was happening, he felt an overwhelming force deeply embedded in the vertebrae of his neck, as if a slight exertion would sever his head from his body!
“I ask, you answer. One false word, and you die on the spot!”
In the dark cave, Xiao Minghuang’s calm voice echoed, eerie like the midnight reaper, demanding life.
“…Yes.”
The burly man stammered.
“Who are you? What are you doing here?”
“We are cultivators near Beiyang City, hunting fierce beasts in the mountains. We stay in the cave at night because it’s too far from the city.”
Xiao Minghuang said indifferently:
“Oh? Is that so?”
The burly man felt the pressure on his neck growing stronger, his heart nearly bursting with fear, and he trembled:
“…Yes, yes! Heroine, please don’t kill an innocent man.”
“Wrong. The innocent ones are the civilians you abducted and brutally killed, aren’t they?”
Her words were laced with killing intent.
This killing intent was so thick, like a sharp sword, almost piercing through the burly man’s body.
Under such heavy pressure, the man trembled uncontrollably, almost unable to stand, and a pool of murky liquid flowed down his leg.
At the same time.
Xiao Minghuang noticed that besides the foul smell of blood in the air, there was now a pungent stench of urine.
She covered her nose and said impatiently, “I’ll give you one last chance. Speak the truth quickly, or you’ll die!”
This time, the burly man dared not hold anything back and recounted the events in detail.
After some interrogation, Xiao Minghuang had a rough understanding of the situation within the cave.
Translator: Glariosa
Editor: Ruu
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